A group of COVID-19 survivors remembered those who have died with 1,000 empty chairs set up in front of the Georgia Capitol Wednesday.
Each chair represented nearly 10 Georgians who have died from COVID-19 this year as well as those who suffered lingering symptoms for months after clearing the virus.
Nine years ago, Georgia reported ample data to the feds on the health care quality of its Medicaid and PeachCare programs. In fact, a federal report at that time praised Georgia’s “proactive role in designing its data systems to support quality measurement.”
But according to a Georgia Health News analysis, for the past two years, Georgia reported only a fraction of theinformation the federal Core Set requested.
More than half the funds received by Georgia companies as part of a federal loan program meant to support small businesses during the pandemic went to large companies that received loans of $3 million or more, according to newly released datafrom the U.S. Small Business Administration.
On this episode of Battleground: Ballot Box, we look at the extraordinary steps Georgia Republicans have taken to try to overturn the state's election results, attack the systems and rules they put in place and support President Trump's false claims of fraud.
The Georgia Secretary of State's office said they will audit a random sample of absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb County from the November general election and the June 9 primary as part of an investigation that local officials mishandled the process.
Changes are coming to the way Georgians access health care. But for 2021, anyone without insurance can still find a plan through the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Open enrollment is available through Dec. 15 from healthcare.gov.
From the Georgia State House to the U.S. Senate, Republican elected officials are now attacking the very election infrastructure they created and have used successfully for years, as part of an effort to placate the outgoing president and hold onto power in a demographically shifting state that voted for Joe Biden.
For the second week in a row, Georgia Republican lawmakers have invited the Trump campaign and other right-wing witnesses to spread baseless conspiracies and claims of voting fraud under the guise of improving elections in the state.
More eyes were watching Georgia’s ballot counting process in person this year as Democratic President Elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in a razor-thin margin.
At a rally in Georgia, President Donald Trump continued to make baseless claims about the 2020 election being “rigged,” drawing false comparisons at one point between President-elect Joe Biden’s performance in swing states and that of the last two Democratic presidential nominees.
Unfounded conspiracy theories about the presidential election in Georgia hound Republican Gov. Brian Kemp even as he works to get the word out about Georgia’s new COVID-19 vaccination plan.
Following a COVID-19 update Tuesday inside the Capitol, Kemp was approached by a group of demonstrators with two large bags they said contained more than 2,000 letters urging Kemp to call a special session of the state Legislature to investigate claimed election irregularities and potentially change the results of Georgia’s election won by President-elect Joe Biden.
The three former Washington County Sheriff’s Deputies who killed Eurie Lee Martin in 2017 are no longer immune from prosecution and will likely to go to trial on murder charges sometime next year.
Wednesday on Political Rewind: The schism between Georgia Republicans intensifies. State party chairman David Shafer is suing Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a last-ditch effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory here.
